By Sheeva Azma
This blog, and included links, deal with Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal activities and are not suitable for a general audience.
“I’m glad you published your article on your blog rather than at the New York Times, because I would not have read it,” one Instagram user wrote me via direct message (DM).
As I embarked on the journey of investigating science in the Epstein files, I made an exciting discovery: the people who were consuming my work were also analytical thinkers who liked to dig deep into the Epstein files and try to figure it all out.
For the record, I’m not the only one on Instagram talking about scientists in the Epstein files — there are a lot of us picking apart the millions of pages of redacted PDFs released by the DOJ. There’s journalist and writer @anandwrites, who talks about concentric circles of enablement in what he calls the “Epstein class,” including some scientists, who he calls “mind concierges” — I have argued that it goes far deeper than that. A plastic surgeon, @tonyyounmd, also published a reel calling out doctors in the Epstein files.
Despite that, the followers began to accumulate, excited that someone was talking about this topic. People got into my Instagram DMs (that’s short for “direct messages,” for those of you not in the know) with all types of useful insights and analysis, including blogs, newsletters, and short form video content written by other people digging into the Epstein files.
“I read your most recent blog post. I’m glad you decided to publish it on your blog rather than the New York Times because I might not have read it. :)” someone wrote to me about the “Science in the Epstein files” series I had started on Instagram, then also talked about on our blog and Substack.
In the ensuing weeks, we exchanged information on the files and went down various rabbit holes, especially regarding neuroscience. They sent me a press release of four mit researchers attending the WH announcement of the BRAIN initiative which, as I noted, had half the MIT neuroscience contingent (Boyden and Seung) appearing in the Epstein files. “I think neuroscience is wonderful and holds the key to the future. Just with what I know about Epstein, especially now, that he’d be so close to it bothers me. In the wrong hands it could become something like the ultimate version of MK ULTRA or something,” the person wrote on Instagram.
“There are so many unanswered questions with the case. What angles have you been looking at lately?” they asked me at one point.
“I have been trying to figure out which scientists visited the Epstein Ranch and what they did there,” I said. I also mentioned my interest in Epstein’s deception research.
Another Instagram user told me via DM that they had worked in the 3D architecture and engineering industry. They used this knowledge to do a deep dive into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch after running into Jeffrey Epstein, who they did not personally know, in an elevator once. It was an event, the individual says, that “privately consumed me for a short time and now turns out I wasn’t crazy.”
Zorro Ranch is the property in which Epstein told scientists he wanted to “seed the human race” by impregnating women.
The building professional described the conditions of the building in ways that made me feel that it was of utmost importance to figure out which scientists had visited it. I did do that, to some extent. You can read a blog about Ed Boyden and Martin Nowak’s visit with, reportedly, other scientists, here. I also published an Instagram reel with more names including Jack Horner, a paleontologist who inspired Jurassic Park, and Geoffrey West, a researcher and past president at the Santa Fe Institute.
“One of the things that our community hurts from is having found, through the stories of survivors, that some of the most horrendous crimes took place at the ranch,” María José Rodríguez Cádiz, who runs Solace Sexual Assault Services, a local facility for survivors of sexual violence, where dozens of survivors and their loved ones sought assistance, told Reuters.
The Reuters report says that 45 people sought help from Solace the year Epstein went to jail for the second time in 2019. None of those people filed reports with law enforcement, because as she says: “This is one of the crimes that is least investigated…because survivors may not have hard evidence. Survivors may wait sometimes.”
NBC News details how Zorro Ranch evaded investigation in 2018 (watch the video below or here). The news outlet also details how an anonymous tip to a radio DJ, who then reported it to federal authorities, suggested that young women may be buried on the ranch. “There was a sense of fear, there was a sense of isolation,” a young woman who worked as a masseuse on the ranch told NBC News about working on the ranch.
The engineer/architect forwarded along this video created by two YouTubers who tried to buy the ranch with the end goal of finding as much information about it as possible, but then they were asked to sign an NDA before touring the ranch, so they tried to find out as much about the ranch as possible from people they talked to. It’s a very informative watch that features a lot of interviews, including discussions with scientists. Obligatory content warning that might be obvious at this point: this video is not suitable for younger audiences for many reasons I don’t have the mental energy to list out here.
Okay, now that that’s out of the way, if you want to know why Boyden and Nowak’s visits to the ranch with “lots of scientists” is so questionable, and merits further investigation, this video will tell you all you need to know.
Beyond that, the builder/engineer/architect who DM’d me described the ranch as “more like an inescapable island” of land.
“Being so remote, you’re going to spend days there, not hours. And it’s an adventure park in a sense. A cute little town with themed houses after you get through the series of private gates. An airstrip a bit past the cute little town. But I see he always flew into Santa Fe Airport. That’s a 40 minute drive I read. Then a long winding drive to get to the main house on the hill. There are other themed houses, and a yurt, all really far apart and not walkable distances,” they wrote to me.
As news emerged that a secret military contractor built the ranch, I reached out to ask the 3D engineering/architecture professional’s thoughts. They said: “That compound of buildings would cost an enormous amount of money every month. Just the monthly and year bill would be the same as a nice hotel or hospital. Then the construction and materials of the main building are the best of the best. I think that’s got to be a committee or a board deciding on planning, landscape, design, landscape, telecommunications, building mechanicals, overbuilding to all specs, subcontractors, lawyers and specialized contracts, road design and civil engineering, water!!!, wastewater, trash and medical waste, fire suppression, security and life safety systems, delivery systems and companies, water treatment for pools and fountains, etc…Andddddd all that land is toxic from the nuclear testing, accidents and nuclear waste storage a few miles away.”
Here’s some other stuff that I learned from my DMs with this person plus some additional research:
- The ranch was “set up for hunting desert rabbits,” with “unlimited expensive shotguns on the property,” which I was able to partially corroborate via this New York Post article talking about how some of the firearms were stolen in 2018
- There was least one doctor living/working there 24/7 (which is discussed in the YouTube video I linked above by DJ Bolger)
- There was a yurt on the property which needed defibrillators for rituals that happened in it (Epstein kept two defibrillators on the Zorro property, which were well-maintained, as I learned reading the Epstein files)
- Though I could not independently verify it, my DM source said that there were inconsistencies in the floor plan vs. what the reality of the ranch looked like, such as having reinforced windows (I could not find anything about that anywhere) and “only 4 bedrooms in the main [hacienda-style] house even though it’s listed as 33,000 sq. ft. A construction contractor said the bedrooms all had inescapable windows with extreme metal bars on them.”
You can see the floor plans of the Zorro Ranch, and get more information on the timeline of the ranch’s establishment, at this news article by KOAT, a local news station based in New Mexico.
Scientists who visited this ranch need to be investigated. None of this is okay and it’s unsettling that such a thing can be possible for taxpayer-funded science.
Thank you to those of you who have, thus far, reached out to me with helpful resources. Feel free to contact us on Instagram or via email if you have more information.
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